iPhone 13 Camera is blurry

lobsterghost1 wrote:

The reference I said was "normal" had nothing to do with blurry photos being normal. I was speaking to the poster who believed that immediately after a photo was taken, it opens blurry, then goes into focus. That is normal, as the phone is still processing the photo immediately after has been taken.

Precisely.

So, you didn't buy a phone with amazing processing power, which takes all these tiny pixels to the tune of millions of them to process, and you think your phone is defective because it takes about a second or less to process all that data the FIRST time the photo is opened after taking it?

Really? And this is unacceptable to you? You seem to truly have expectations iPhone 13 simply can't meet. Unrealistic expectations.

I’m so glad it’s not just mine! I got mine a week ago and it’s so bad every photo I take it’s just fuzzy feeling way I know how to describe it it works fine with videos and portrait mode for the most part!! But I’m not paying this much money for a phone with a nasty camera

Absolutely FANTASTIC. Taken with a cell phone camera even more remarkable.

I wish people would take the time to learn even a little about photography and the camera in their phone. Instead, they don't have a clue which camera to use for which situation and come here and claim (falsely) that the cameras are crap.

Hello ~ Now…explain to me …how does a picture get any better? What would we have to go through to get that same picture with our other cameras? It just really amazes me to see it. Long ago I used to do some underwater photography and at times to achieve a “decent “ picture you were putting your life at risk…so this seems pretty remarkable that Apple can put all of these wonderful things together in an iPhone.

~Katana-San~

I would have needed to do a lot of prep to take a star photo like that with my DSLR.

I literally pointed my iPhone 13 up and tapped the shutter, less than thirty seconds total time, most of that tapping the camera app icon and figuring out where to point.

My wife and I both have the same problem as reported here with our iPhone 13 Pro cameras. Very bad picture, unfocused and strange colours. Is this a hardware issue or a software issue that can be fixed in a future update?

Hello ~ The only way I could do any better or try to would be to set up my Canon eos R6 on a tripod and play around for 15-20 minutes trying to get the shot that they took in a few seconds…I think that they have 2 excellent pictures. Taking a shot with a hand held camera of any kind anyone would be hard pressed to do much better. Plus a phone that I can talk to anyone in the world , a wallet, a photo album, a camera and a video camera, maps …and search the web etc….all in the palm of your hand. Plus you can take pictures at night. In my opinion…Apple has created nothing short of a miracle.

~Katana-San~

Well, it's a mystery to me, in places the white things on the rocks look like some have turned to whitish transparent liquid running down the rock!

Don't shoot me because I know nothing, but how steady was the Camera during those shots?

Yes! This is the exact problem I am having. It is HORRENDOUS. I was so excited for this phone because I loved the camera quality of my 11 Pro so MUCH and I was expecting even sharper quality. I have noticed other people have mentioned that their photos are worse when the Ultra Wide Lens is being used, but not when the Telephoto Lens is being used and I noticed that as well. Nevertheless, there is still a really gross after effect once a photo is taken where the saturation, sharpness, and also smoothing effects are seemingly put to 100, but with no way of turning it off. My fear is that this a hardware issue. As someone who is passionate about iPhone photography, this ABSOLUTELY ruins this phone for me and makes me want to return it so that I can get the nicer quality of my 11 back.

If Apple doesn’t amend this I don’t know what I will do. This will sever my trust with them completely.

What bothers me also is the zoom, you zoom in just a little and it’s not clear!! I don’t get how an Android phone can zoom very far out and be clear but an iPhone can’t when they are the same price almost! iPhone needs to step up the game in the camera area considering nothing else had changed majorly.

Unless you are posting two photos of the very same subject, both shot on tripods from the same location, this is an irrelevant comparison. Sorry. Different phones, photographing different scenes, is not worthy for a true comparison.

Same problem here. Loved the camera quality on my 11 Pro but the 13 Pro frequently produces absolutely awful photos.

The 3x lens, even in bright daylight, looks like it’s cropping and digital zooming from the wide lens — which I suspect it does sometimes when lighting conditions aren’t great, but it shouldn’t be doing it at noon on a sunny day. Ideally I’d like it not to do that at all and let me make the decision. Even when it doesn’t do that they often look overly processed, like a low res photo run through an upscaling algorithm or something.

I’ll give it a couple of software updates to see if it’s a kink to be worked out, but if not I’m returning it and going back to an 11 Pro.

Trying to figure out whether your answer is sarcastic. The photo quality is terrible, this is obvious, even if you consider downsampling. By the way I just downloaded the photo from this thread, and it looks exactly the same as my original picture.

What bother me is clear if you look at the picture: the highlights are unnatural, there is no focus, colors are off, overhsarpening is way too present, this for an overall blurry result. It looks like digitally zoomed photo while is was taken is the wide camera, everything set as default.

This is clearly a bug software or hardware I don’t know. I had several iPhones in the past, and never experienced such bad results. This is disappointing, the worse being that the issue is not adressed in any review on on the web. Weird…

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Fair enough.

The 3x lens only gets used in conditions bright enough for its ƒ/2.8 aperture.

If I buy a Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR Lens for US $17,000, I can only use it in quite bright light, but in those conditions where it is usable, it's magnificent.

But with a ƒ/5.6 aperture, if I tried to use it indoors, I'd get nothing but image sensor noise.